![]() ![]() Saturated in pain and disgust, suffused with grotesque and often unbearable images of torture and bodily mutilation, The Island of Doctor Moreau is unquestionably a shocking novel. Darryl Jones's introduction places the book in both its scientific and literary context with the Origin of Species and Gulliver's Travels, and argues that The Island of Doctor Moreau is, like all of Wells's best fiction, is fundamentally a novel of ideas It is also a serious, and highly knowledgeable, philosophical engagement with Wells's times, with their climate of scientific openness and advancement, but also their anxieties about the ethical nature of scientific discoveries, and their implications for religion. Disturbed by the cries of animals in pain, and by his encounters with half-bestial creatures, Edward slowly realises his danger and the extremes of the Doctor's experiments. They were animals, humanised animals.'Ī shipwrecked Edward Prendick finds himself stranded on a remote Noble island, the guest of a notorious scientist, Doctor Moreau. 'The creatures I had seen were not men, had never been men. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health. ![]() ![]() ![]() The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() Re-enter LeMerle, masquerading as a zealous and wildly handsome priest, who sets out to win the hearts and loins of every adoring woman in the place.įor personal reasons of his own - pride, rage, self-amusement - LeMerle, watched by a mesmerised Juliette, persuades the innocent nuns that they are possessed by the devil, and then sits back to admire their ensuing descent into mass hysteria and the fires of hell. Following the murder of Henri IV in Paris, a new abbess arrives determined to infuse the nuns with strict religious zeal. When her treacherous lover abandons her to certain death, Juliette escapes with her little daughter to Sainte Marie de la Mer, a remote convent run as an undemanding - almost pagan - commune. ![]() Holy Fools is the story of Juliette, a street acrobat who becomes infatuated with Guy LeMerle, a mysterious, corrupt and beautiful young man who leads his outrageous, satirical dance troupe from town to town in plague-torn, politically volatile 17th-century France. ![]() ![]() The Chiffon Trenches is a candid look at the who’s who of the last fifty years of fashion, and proof that fact is always fascinatingly more devilish than fiction. André Leon Talley’s engaging memoir tells the story of how he not only survived but thrived – despite racism, illicit rumors and all the other challenges of this notoriously cutthroat industry – to become one of the most legendary voices and faces in fashion. Mario Testino is a fashion photographer who has come to define fashion as much as he documents it. ![]() ![]() Description : During André Leon Talley’s first magazine job assisting Andy Warhol at Interview , a fateful meeting with Karl Lagerfeld began a decades-long friendship and propelled Talley into the upper echelons by virtue of his shared knowledge and adoration of fashion. He moved to Paris as bureau chief of John Fairchild’s Women’s Wear Daily , befriending fashion’s most important designers. But as Talley made friends, he also made enemies. A fraught encounter with a member of the house of Yves Saint Laurent sent him back to New York and into the offices of Vogue under Grace Mirabella. There, he developed an unlikely but intimate friendship with Anna Wintour, and as she rose to the top of Vogue‘s masthead, Talley became the most influential man in fashion. Kate Moss by Mario Testino Taschen, 2011 Kate Who Phillips de Pury, 2010 Todo o Nada, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2010 MaRIO DE JANEIRO Testino Taschen, 2009 Obsessed by You Phillips de Pury, 2008 Let Me In Taschen, 2007 Out of Fashion Phillips de Pury, 2006 Diana. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And it's a great source of training inspiration and wisdom as well. Many regard the story of Quenton Cassidy's battle to the top as the most accurate portrayal yet written of the tiny universe of world class runners. It's been acclaimed over the years by Frank Shorter, Bill Rodgers, Alberto Salazar and many other top runners. It has become a cult classic and our all-time best seller. The Reno Gazette-Journal has also called it "a book so good, people will steal it." How often do you hear about someone borrowing a friend's book, then later buying their own copy because they liked it so much? Or a book so treasured that it gets passed from friend to friend until it simply falls apart from so many readings? Once a Runner is such a book. This is the inspirational cult classic that Runner's World (and many others) have called "the best novel ever written about running". ![]() ![]() This elegant collector's edition includes over 70 of Poe's short stories, more than 40 melodious poems, and his only full-length novel, The Narrative of A. ![]() His often macabre and dark works, which span the years from 1827 to his death in 1849, include "The Raven," "The Black Cat," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "Annabelle Lee." For Poe fans worldwide, this stunning gift edition features a gorgeous deckled edge, ribbon marker, and foil and deboss details on a vibrantly colored case. ![]() Part of the Timeless Classics series, The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe contains every know tale written by the famous gothic American writer. ![]() ![]() ![]() With beautifully intricate black-and-white interior illustrations and a uniquely designed package, this is the perfect gift for book lovers Each story begins with a hope for a better end, but always end with a better understanding of the beginning. With tales of friendship and revenge, plus two new stories from the Carve the Mark universe, this collection has something for new and old fans alike. In these six stories, Veronica Roth reaches into the unknown and draws forth something startlingly familiar and profoundly beautiful. And yet, for all the advances in these futuristic lands, the people still must confront deeply human problems. Within this masterful collection, each setting is more strange and wonderful than the last, brimming with new technologies and beings. Summary Bestselling Divergent and Carve the Mark author Veronica Roth delivers a stunning collection of novella-length stories set in the future, illustrated with startling black-and-white artwork. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The second part of the 'Stockbridge trilogy' brings us to the village in the present day - more or less. There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name He’s also written documentaries and for TV sketch shows. ![]() Releases include a full-cast adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Chimes', an original play, 'When Michael Met Benny', and three episodes of a SF sitcom, 'Dick Dixon in the 21st Century'.įor details visit He also originated his own series, Vienna and script-edited the Nigel Planer series 'Jeremiah Bourne in Time'. Recently he has started his own audio production company, Average Romp. He has also written numerous comic strips, most of which were collected in 'The Child of Time', and audios for BBC Audio and Big Finish, including the highly-regarded comedies 'Max Warp' and 'The Auntie Matter', as well as the adaptation of Russell T Davies’ 'Damaged Goods'. Jonathan Morris is one of the most prolific and popular writers of Doctor Who books, including the highly-regarded novels 'Festival of Death' and 'Touched by an Angel' and the recent guide to monsters, 'The Monster Vault'. ![]() ![]() ![]() Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s sweeping fantasy debut, full of stolen memories, illicit mermaid’s blood, double agents, and haunting mythical creatures conjures an extraordinary cast of characters and the unforgettable story of a couple striving to stay together in the face of myriad forces wishing to control their identities and destinies. But when they fall in love, they decide to take fate into their own hands-no matter the cost. But Evelyn’s one-way voyage to an arranged marriage in the Floating Islands is interrupted when the captain and crew show their true colors and enslave their wealthy passengers.īoth Florian and Evelyn have lived their lives by the rules, and whims, of others. Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, a highborn Imperial daughter, is on board as well-accompanied by her own casket. Summary: Aboard the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl takes on the identity of Florian the man to. ![]() The pirate Florian, born Flora, has always done whatever it takes to survive-including sailing under false flag on the Dove as a marauder, thief, and worse. The mermaid, the witch, and the sea / Maggie Tokuda-Hall. ![]() ![]() ![]() Men gather from as far as Thessaly and Sparta, and our storehouses grow rich with their gold. I AM FIVE when it is my father’s turn to host the games. And there was my mother, dribbling wine on herself. Was I a changeling, inhuman? He scowled at me, watching. The colds and cramps that seized my peers left me untouched. The best that could be said of me was that I was not sickly. Quickly, I became a disappointment: small, slight. ![]() She did not seem to notice a change had been made. In pity, the midwife gave my mother a pillow to hold instead of me. When I was delivered, a boy, he plucked me from her arms and handed me to a nurse. That is how they knew she was quite stupid. When at last they pulled off the veil, they say my mother smiled. If she was ugly, there were always slave girls and serving boys. Her father had been scrupulous about keeping her veiled until the ceremony, and my father had humored him. He did not find out until the wedding that she was simple. It was a good match: she was an only child, and her father’s fortune would go to her husband. He married my mother when she was fourteen and sworn by the priestess to be fruitful. ![]() HE was a short man, as most of us were, and built like a bull, all shoulders. ![]() MY FATHER WAS A KING AND THE SON OF KINGS. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() – in which part if the book is set – declared a national park. President Obama recently invited him to the Oval Office to recognize 1861’s role in having Fort Monroe, Va. Goodheart’s book has been named one of the Top Ten History Books of the year by Amazon, one of the Top 25 Nonfiction Books of the year by Barnes & Noble, and a New York Times Notable Book of 2011. ![]() The book has received wide critical acclaim a cover review in the New York Times called it “exhilarating” “inspiring,” and “irresistible,” adding, “ 1861 creates the uncanny illusion that the reader has stepped into a time machine.” The Boston Globe’s reviewer wrote: “Hardly a page of this book lacks an insight of importance or a fact that beguiles the reader.” Mr. Adam Goodheart is a historian, essayist, and journalist and the author of the New York Times bestselling book 1861: The Civil War Awakening, which was published by Knopf in April 2011. ![]() |